Hudson v. Cobbs

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With all due respect to Justice Huntley and to Justice McDevitt for the light which they were able to shed upon the facts and circumstances of this case,3 it was a highly experienced and extremely able practicing attorney who shed the most helpful illumination on the most troublesome aspect of the case. When I became first embroiled, which was only after Justice Huntley had resigned and Justice Shepard had died, and after two of the surviving justices awarded a rehearing, my approach was to first read the exhaustive history of the case furnished in the district court’s memorandum decision…